Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West." Montana Democrat Mike Mansfield, who needled Dulles unmercifully during last year's great debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine, now reminded the Kremlin that Dulles is "the Secretary of State of the United States of America." At his weekly press conference the President, questioned on Bulganin's crack about biased foreign ministers, got a laugh when he cracked right back that the Kremlin "must have been talking about Foreign Minister Gromyko...
...outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would try for the governorship, not only because Ellender would be a hard political nut to crack but also because Earl Long drubbed the mayor badly in the 1956 race for governor. To proud and progress-conscious Chep Morrison, the defeat still rankles...
...Said Iraq's irascible old Nuri asSaid: "You don't have union when one of the countries is erased." Nasser's terms-pow er to impose a single party and choose its leader, to extirpate other parties-were clearly designed to allow Nasser to crack down on Syrian Communists as hard as he has on his own. Already Nasser's house-cleaning was under way. Syria's Communist Party Chief Khaled Bakdash took one look at the proposed constitution and left by plane with his family for Moscow. Significantly, Moscow, which has clarioned all available...
...defiance of Christoff (who played Philip II, Don Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished with real abandon. The impromptu dialogue was splendid: "Criminal! Madman! You're trying to disembowel me! I'll crack your skull!" Winner: Corelli, who got only a scratch, sent Christoff sulking off with a bloody hand. Boomed the basso later: "He was standing too close; simply to make him draw back, I touched his sword with mine." Declared the tenor: "I was no longer faced with my father, the King...
...government was overthrown. Within half an hour of Dictator Pérez Jiménez' flight, the ten-year-old censorship was scrapped. Nonetheless, newsmen still had a complaint: to quell street rioting, the new government slapped a ban on liquor sales that proved far harder to crack than censorship...